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* [[Orwellian Editor]]: Purges eventually became something of a [[Running Gag]]. Occasionally, it's fiefdoms of exiled editors purged - like that [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/zoophilia_wikiscandal/ zoophilia related content]. Other times, politics and/or lack of adoration toward wikipedia itself - for example, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280502/Anonymous-Wikipedia-activists-promote-warped-agenda.html Daily Mail] and [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/09/wikipedians_snubs_daily_mail_youre_not_reliable/ El Reg] are purge-at-will, and [http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/the-people-s-cube-entry-has-just-been-deleted-from-wikipedia-t19170-80.html#p218037 The People's Cube] became an [[Unperson|un-site]].
** Alicia Machado [http://takimag.com/article/from_orwell_to_gladwell_and_back_steve_sailer/ biography whitewashing].
* [[All The Tropes:Strong Language Usage Rules]]: Similar, minus funny being acceptable. And [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of style|much more detailed]].▼
* [[Pothole]]: Called a "piped link" over there, and [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Piped link#Intuitiveness|discouraged]].
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Don't stuff up beans up your nose|Defied]].
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** Wikipedia's insistence on using freely licensed/public domain material often results in this. For example, photographs of living people must be freely licensed or they get deleted. It also introduces some bias — screenshots of software will show it running on Linux, unless it's Windows-only. Media player screenshots are usually shown playing either ''[[Big Buck Bunny]]'' or ''[[Sintel]]'' (since they are Creative Commons-licensed). Web browsers are shown displaying Wikipedia (as mentioned under Medium Awareness). What is different about this example is that the editors are quite often aware that the material exists — they just aren't allowed to use it.
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]: Has been known to cause attempts to invoke this trope.
▲* [[All The Tropes:Strong Language Usage Rules|Strong Language Usage Rules]]: Similar, minus funny being acceptable. And [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of style|much more detailed]].
* [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability]]: ''Utterly'' inverted — at least [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:General notability guideline|in principle]], because [[wikipedia:Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability|enforcement varies]].
* [[Thread Mode]]: The bullet points version is averted hard in articles but played straight on talk pages and deletion process pages. The inline version, not so much.
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